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L. W. HOTTEL CONTAINER Filed April 1924 Oct. 27 ,1925- w////////////wnAa/v/ h m z?/ /7 FL I l l I I l It Patented Oct. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE.

v LOUIS W. HOTTEL, F ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

' CONTAINER.

Application filed April 4, 1924. Serial No. 704,192.

I do hereby declare the following to. be a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aceompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of Y this specification.

are molded from plastic material and after wards hardened.

This invention pertains. particularly to forming of hand grip means from the exterior of said container by means of which the container may be lifted when desired. The features of my invention are herein after fully set forth and pointed'out and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings in 2 which: I

Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a battery box constructed according to my invention. I a

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same.

In these drawin s A indicates the end walls of a battery ox.- A indicates a de- This invention relates to containers which .m Figure 1.

.pressed panel around three sidesof which is a style surface which joins the depressed panel by means of an angular bead; Across the upper edge of the depressed panel A is placed an outwardly projecting lug B which lug is formed thereon from a projecting portion of the material from which the walls of the box is made. These lugs B are preferably undercut as at b to receive the ends 40 of a persons fingers when it is desired to v lift the box. i

Above the lugs B I place raised bosses C .which bosses have central openings or recesses therein to receive the ends of lifting tongs or a bale, as shown by broken'lines' These lugs and bosses are formed from the material composing the battery box and are molded thereon simultaneously with the molding of the box.

Having thus fully described my invention so as to enable others to utilize the same, what I claim as new and-desire to secure by Letters Patent is i v {In a container, a depressed panel, a ho-ri- Z0 tal style ribbon above. said depressed panel, a portion of said style projecting out wardly beyond the plane thereof, the depth of said depressed panel constituting a portion of said projecting portion of said style. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LOUIS W. HOTTEL. 

